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AndyT wrote:Brilliant! And you've gone to the best source for the instructions. I'm sure yours will be bang on 45° and 90° and be really useful.
There's another feature of the 90° side that I didn't mention, using it to saw tenon shoulders. There used to be a special vice used by chairmakers, in conjunction with a saw with the blade attached to a flat block. A chair leg or frame side is clamped in the vice and the saw is run round it, cutting even shoulders to define a tenon. This is especially useful on curved pieces that need a square tenon.
I think there's a diagram in Salaman or maybe in Roubo. Anyway, you can use the square side to do something similar. Or you could use that mitre saw - is it an old American one?
Edited to add pic of armchair saw
Andyp wrote:I am sure my father has a couple of those in the garage. Not sure if my grandfather would have made them or bought them. I’ll try and remember to take some photos next month if I get over there.
Stuart wrote:Nice work. I was offered one of these a while ago but thought no thanks.
Now I can't find one for love or money! I have neither the skills nor the equipment to make my own.
Woodbloke wrote:A slightly different version of the same thing, but this one is able to shoot a very wide board:
I pinched this particular design off Mitch Peacock, an Instagrammer and UToober. Very useful for making mitred boxes etc - Rob
Edit - I’ve cunningly made this one adjustable, so the angle shot can be plus or minus 45deg by a smidge - Rob
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